Sport(s) | Varsity boys' basketball |
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Current position | |
Title | Assistant coach |
Team | Maret School |
Conference | Mid-Atlantic Athletic |
Biographical details | |
Born |
Charlotte, North Carolina |
November 3, 1962
Playing career | |
1981–1985 | Maryland |
Position(s) | Shooting guard |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1985–1988 | Naval Academy Prep |
1989–1996 | James Madison (assoc. HC) |
1997–2003 | Marymount |
2003–2004 | Georgetown (asst./RC) |
2004–2006 | Bishop Ireton HS |
2006–2010 | Maryland (asst.) |
2010–2015 | The Citadel |
2015–present | Maret HS |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 130–185 |
Tournaments | 0–1 (NCAA D-III) |
Charles William "Chuck" Driesell (born November 3, 1962) is an American college basketball coach who is the boys' varsity basketball head coach at the Maret School in Washington, D.C. Driesell served as an assistant coach under Gary Williams at the University of Maryland, spent six seasons as head coach at Marymount University (1997 to 2003), and was head coach at The Citadel from 2010 to 2015. He is the son of former Maryland coach Lefty Driesell, and played for his father's team in college. Driesell was named the new boys' basketball coach at the Maret School in Washington DC in the summer of 2015.
Driesell was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, the son of Davidson College basketball coach Charles Grice "Lefty" Driesell. As a child, Chuck was a water boy and ball boy while his father served as the long-time head basketball coach at the University of Maryland. Lefty Driesell coached there from 1969 to 1986 and invented the "Midnight Madness" rally.
Chuck attended the University of Maryland, and played on the basketball team coached by his father as a shooting guard from 1981 to 1985. Driesell participated in four postseason tournaments (one NIT and three NCAA) and was also a member of the 1984 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) championship team. Driesell received Academic All-American honors and made the ACC Honor Roll three years. He graduated in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in business marketing.